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In terms of a strict geographical observation Mozza can't be faulted. But some people in snooker need to be reminded that the UK is only one country of many. There is a whole world out there and it needs to be explored.
Snooker was invented in India, albeit by British army officers. The professional game was born in the UK and grew here but for snooker to go forward it needs to grow elsewhere as well.
There have been forays to Australia and New Zealand, to Canada, to continental Europe, to the Middle East and to the Far East.
Many of these tournaments have simply fallen by the wayside, taking much of the local interest in snooker with them.
Meanwhile here in Britain the boom has passed, snooker clubs have shut down at an alarming rate and pro-am competitions are vastly reduced in number.
I support keeping the Betfred.com World Championship at the Crucible in Sheffield because of the great history of the place but, in general, there needs to be more tournaments outside British shores, not just for snooker's credibility but for its future survival as a top level sport.
This is the best way of encouraging participation around the world and ensuring global TV coverage.
The BBC, which has done more than any player to popularise the sport, is still hugely important to the professional game but snooker needs to be seen in households far from British shores as well.
I understand the PTC grand finals will be held outside the UK, a good start.
Barry Hearn was recently in China and Thailand talking to promoters about new events in the Far East. I know he has also spoken to representatives of other countries so it is very likely players will be racking up the air miles soon.
Good. For a sport to have global pretensions it actually has to travel the world.
Most top players are still British of course – and there's nothing inherently wrong with that – but it's a little odd for a 'World' Championship to include only a handful of none British faces.
Ding Junhui has of course been the standard bearer of the Chinese snooker revolution and Neil Robertson has, to his credit, been getting himself in front of every TV camera going in Australia since becoming world champion.
Interest is huge in Eastern Europe. Regular readers of this blog log on from countries such as Russia, Poland and Lithuania in large numbers.
So step forward the 12bet.com World Open...this tournament, whatever its faults may be, at least includes a few exotic names.
There's Igor Figueiredo, Brazil's first professional, who plays Mark Williams tomorrow.
And there's Thailand's Thepchaiya Un Nooh, who tackles newly crowned Shanghai Masters champion Ali Carter today.
The World Open will foreground a total of 43 players. Some of these are familiar, some are established lower rankers and some will be completely new to most viewers.
The format is quickfire, probably too quickfire for many players. Stephen Hendry said the other day that he didn't think ranking points should be given to a tournament of best of fives and he's probably right.
But I'd rather World Snooker tried something new than tried nothing at all.
The BBC will probably still go with three tournaments rather than four next season but the World Open will at least have been showcased and, unless it's a total disaster, which I don't think it will be, I'd expect to see it somewhere on the calendar in 2011/12.
Hearn has been canny using the word 'World' in the title, immediately adding prestige to the tournament for any overseas promoter keen to take it on.
And at least the rules of the game haven't been messed with. It's still snooker, just a more cut-throat version.
Some will still prefer best of nines, others will enjoy seeing more matches and players. I'd imagine the gambling community will largely steer clear.
Players higher up the rankings may feel they are disadvantaged. There are no seedings and they know the lower ranked players have a better chance of beating them over a shorter distance.
But if Hearn's global vision does come to fruition – and it will take at least a couple of years to do so – this tournament will be just one of many.
My advice to players in coming seasons: keep your passports handy, you're going to need them.
World Open TV times:
BBC1: 3-4.30pm
BBC2: 11.20pm-2.10am
Eurosport2: 2.30-4.30pm
Eurosport International: 6-10pm
British Eurosport2: 2.55-4.30pm, 7-10pm
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Good point about the over reliance on the UK market.
As well as having the championships permanently based in Sheffield, the UK Championships is currently the 2nd biggest tournament.
Instead of identifying the BBC events as the "majors", I'd like to see several UK style tournaments dotted around the globe and deem these as the majors.
China is already capable of having one, maybe by upgrading one of their existing tournaments.
Germany could host another, thereby bringing the total to 3.
You would then have the UK, Asian, and European championships.
The majors would sit alongside the regular rankers in the calendar and could be increased further in number pending a countries' growing interest in the game.
There is also the possibility, if the game grows accordingly, of having more masters style events abroad.
These could run concurrently with PTC events, ensuring everyone is busy.
This entry probably appears fanciful, and probably is, but we have to assume growth, and it is important to have some kind of global structure in the future rather than a hodgepodge of best of 9 rankers all over the place.
It is also important to find other TV partners. If BBC didn't have a virtual monopoly they mightn't be so quick to drop events.
- 11:03 am
- jamie brannon said...
The late-night coverage starts at midnight.
Bad news that you think we will lose an event.
- 12:02 pm
I still would have preferred something like 'Global Open' instead - then again,it could a
be tournament name for a new,
future event.
I can see the World Open being
a successful re-invention of the
Grand Prix & considering BBC still kept four tournaments on their scheduele through the 'doldrum years' - it would seem odd,
especially with the new vibrancy in Snooker - to now reduce to
3 tournaments,as things are on
the up & up.
Looking ahead,would be ideal if
the PTC/EPTC Series expanded to
20 events or above in future years,
with new countries hosting events
who have yet to do so & possibly
increasing to 10 televised ranking events - therefore,30 counting events towards the rankings would be a perfect tour structure.
Hopefully ticket sales have gone well for the World Open,the GP
had noticeably poor attendances
during early rounds - a vibrant crowd,quickfire matches,intro music
,WT's commentary (well 3 out of 4
ain't bad) - so bring it on !
- 12:16 pm
As an outsider it is hard to read about brits shooting themselves down and not feeling they should dominate snooker. Why this crazed obsession with having to be global and 'move forward'? Towards what?
So you can pad yourselves on the back in 20 years and say "well done, we managed to hand it over to the chinese - we are officialy out of the top 32!"? The popularity of snooker obviously has its own fluctuations and surely the UK interest will see renewed growth under proper management (Hearn). But it is guaranteed to disappear forever if the brits slip away. The damage will be done. Focus instead on your european neighbours and take advantage of the massive support snooker enjoys. And PLEASE understand that the UK is the heart and soul of snooker.
- 1:39 pm
- Dave H said...
I don't recall saying the game should be handed to China. I said it should become more international.
- 1:43 pm
The gambling community will do what it always does. Assume players are playing on their merits as we all do. It does not matter what duration a match is - if a player is going to go crooked he will do it regardless. Bookmakers may provide the vehicle for exploitation but at the end of the day it's the players themselves who are responsible for tainting the integrity of the game.
- 3:27 pm
1.39, what utter rubbish. Tennis, football and even darts are all uk based sports. Look what happened when they went global, you can watch them on telly almost daily, all year round.
Next year there will only be 3 worthwhile TV tournaments in the UK.
- 4:04 pm
Robertson misses a red on 40.
Virgo says - "commentators curse and we're only 5 minutes into the new season"
The PTC's, Austrian open, 6 reds world championships and Shanghai masters, they were all last season were they?
Or does it only count if BBC are covering it?
- 4:13 pm
- NewsBrain said...
I think Stephen Hendry needs to shut up. He is starting to sound like a very bitter has-been.
I bet you the final few will all be top players. You cannot rock up and win the 20/20 world cricket - you need to be bloody good.
Again, look at the FA Cup/World Cup. Are we to say that due to the knockout nature of these events that inferior teams win.
No, no and no. Sport is played at such a high level that short sprint still see the cream come to the top.
I am loving it. Multiple matches with quick resolutions, what great afternoon entertainment we are in for this week. Miles better than Man U/Liv (if you are a neutral anyway).
Gutted BBC are not going to show it next yea. such a shame!
- 4:36 pm
- Dave H said...
To the player who left the message he didn't want me to post - drop me an email at firstname.lastname@example.com because that sounds like a very interesting story
- 5:25 pm
A quick look at Alexa.com (leader in website stats) would seem to espouse Dave's view that there is strong interest in europe and asia.
The U.K only accounts for 21.8% of visitors site traffic to Worldsnooker.com. The rest, in order, Australia (9.9%), Poland (9.2%), Romania (7.7%), Malaysia (7.6%), India (6.9%), Denmark (5.8%), Hong Kong (4.3%), Germany (3.9%) and Hungary (3%). Other salient traffic from Serbia and Turkey.
Reference: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/worldsnooker.com#
P.S. The new live scoring is working like a dream at the world open. Good sleek user interface as well.
- 6:07 pm
I don't agree with Hendry re: the new ranking system but I do agree that the ranking points available for this tournament are way too high when compared to those available at the World Championship and the UK, bearing in mind the number of frames required to win each.
If this tournament is to be off the BBC next year, I hope that is looked at.
- 6:18 pm
Could someone inform tonights Eurosport commentary team that a ball incorrectly spotted by a referee is NOT a foul if not noticed by the player at the table in playing a subsequent shot.
This rule was changed many years ago, and the incident almost occured during the third frame of the Davis/Ebdon match.
I am not surprised by yet another error from Mike Smith but I assumed Joe Johnson would have some sort of grip on the rules of snooker, given his position as a senior commentator.
- 9:02 pm
Mike Smith just telling the viewers that the Grand Prix in Aberdeen when a round robin was best-of-three then changed to best-of-five.
WRONG, it was never best of three.
As I type this they have also stated that a miscue on the third attempt at hitting a snooker is a forfeiture of a frame, also totally inaccurate.
Sorry for being a pedant but its getting silly now.
- 9:36 pm
Ali - As a stat lover - Those facts are very interesting.
Thanks for posting the research.
Australia in 2nd place with 9.9%
is very encouraging & proves there
is a potential & very real market
there for a future event.
I am sure many of those European
countries listed will get the chance to host an EPTC event
sooner rather than later or even
the PTC Grand Finals itself.
Matt - I agree if the World Open
wasn't on BBC,it would probably
merit a 5000 pt tariff for it's
shorter format - but it's the
mass viewership,increased pressure,
one table set up & BBC coverage which gives it credibility at 7000.
But ofcourse,the tariff should be
reduced if W.O was dropped by the
BBC for next season.
- 9:57 pm
Will you be counting the World Open as a separate event or will the winner go under your list of Grand Prix champions?
- 10:26 pm
Hi Dave,
First day's play concluded way before 10.30 and 5 matches finished.
Loved it!
Thanks, Joe
- 10:36 pm
- Dave H said...
It's a new tournament - although they appear to be using the old Grand Prix trophy
- 10:56 pm
The SECC got caught in the old "Grand Prix" syndrome too today. Their notices to spectators, welcomed them to the 2010 Grand Prix Snooker. The error was later corrected!
I have good impressions from today's first day's action at the SECC. Crowds were a bit sparser than one might hope, but there were a fair few in for all matches.
We started to run over schedule in the afternoon and had no interval at all between afternoon and evening but two quick evening matches brought us to a reasonable finish.
And well done to Dave Harold for an excellent performance to produce a 3-0 win tonight over Shaun. I suppose it goes down as a shock, but I won't be shocked at any result in best of 5.
The new live scoring is working fine. There are a lot more bells and whistles to be added to it, but they've obviously elected to ensure all the basics work right first.
Despite the new format I still think much more could be done to create interactivity between players and fans, such as autograph sessions out in the foyer after matches etc. I may be wrong, but I didn't see any evidence of this today. It was the usual players backstage and fans front of house scenario.
- 11:12 pm
i agree Janie, tho i did see you backstage
- 11:31 pm
Suppouse rankingpoints are merited on pricemoney.
Was great day today with five games on a trot!
Excellent set up World Open, imagine when the qualifiers goes truly global!
Mita Masters with a twist!
- 12:19 am
Are you there working in your new job or just for pleasure?
If it's the former what website are you working for again?
Thanks, Joe
- 12:25 am
Alpha - Some websites will list
the World Open in the same page or
category as the Pro Players event,
LG Cup & Grand Prix...presumably
because of it's recurring September
or October slot on the calendar.
The World Open has borrowed the
random draw format from the
original GP (2008/2009),the
British Open (1990/1992) ,
but the biggest blunder was not
investing in a new trophy !
How amateurish...especially when
trying to define the World Open
as an exciting,new brand !
How much would a new trophy have cost anyway ?
- 12:42 am
If the BBC don't want the World Open then would they want the Welsh Open either? What about ITV4? They've shown with Power Snooker that they at least have some interest in the game. They are also free and unlike Sky would be willing to be the secondary UK broadcaster. They wouldn't be demanding the World Championships.
- 12:50 am
There is no doubt that 7000 points is too much for the world open.
There are other anomalies too. The WC used to be double the tariff for a regular ranker, which is still the case with The Welsh and now the German Open.
But why, pray tell, are the Chinese tournaments deemed more valuable than a normal ranker? If anything they should be less with their sparse halls and phones constantly going off.
If Jamie Burnett reaches the semi final of the next China open, he will receive more points from the two Chinese tournaments than he would get for winning the world championship.
- 7:57 am
Good point Chris, if they are going to make the World Open a distinct event from the Grand Prix, they could have at least got a new trophy for it!
- 10:00 am
janie is pretending she hasnt read that question...
- 8:23 am
What an injustice in the Hendry/Haneveer second frame.
Had the ref called free ball it was impossible not to go 1-1, with the green back on its spot and the cueball closer to the yellow.
It would also have got rid of Haneveers nerves and possibly have gone to win the match.
Lucky Hendry. Wonder if he'd have noticed the free ball.
- 9:57 am


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Schierholtz went without a walking boot Friday for the first time this week and did some early sprint work in left field, then followed that by hitting in the cage.
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Schierholtz fouled a pitch from Atlanta's Tim Hudson off his foot in the series opener with the Braves on Aug. 15. Schierholtz played through it, then had an MRI during Monday's off day. A CT scan followed to confirm the fracture.
Schierholtz has hit safely in seven of his last eight games and went 9 for 32 with two homers and two RBIs on the road trip.
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Also Sunday, San Francisco is expected to get outfielder Andres Torres back from a lower right leg contusion.
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Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway will have a preferred stake in the combined company - which would become the third-largest fast-food company in the world - and earn 9 percent annual interest on the investment, according to Burger King.
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Presumably that includes 3G Capital's "parsimonious practices," according to Bloomberg Businessweek. "If its management of Burger King and H.J. Heinz (another 3G-Buffett acquisition) is a guide, Tim Hortons will see jobs cut, offices made more Spartan and posh corporate travel disappear," the publication wrote.
They say money talks. I guess we'll see how that plays out with President Obama, who has lambasted "corporate deserters," called for a "new economic patriotism" and threatened administrative action to halt tax inversions.
A White House official wouldn't comment on the deal to the Wall Street Journal, but Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., co-sponsor of a best-of-luck House measure to restrict tax inversions, told the publication that Burger King becoming Canadian would spark widespread outcry. "Burger King is a household name, and this will focus the public's attention on this issue in a way that earlier inversions did not," said Van Hollen.
That worked with Walgreens, and, who knows, could work again. Initial reactions on Burger King's Facebook page weren't exactly pro-company. "Ate my last Whopper," was the general tenor. "If you attempt to buy Tim Horton's for the purposes of evading US Taxes, I will NEVER step foot in another Burger King again" read one post, which had 1,721 Likes as of Tuesday afternoon.
And maybe there will be some support from our neighbors to the north, where Tim Hortons, with 4,546 locations, including 866 in the United States, is regarded as a national institution, just like Walgreens here. However, the enraged founder of independent website Inside Timmies told the media, "I'm not too sure if Canadians would boycott. It's just not in our blood to do it."
Burger King, unsurprisingly, insists the deal, which has to be approved by both boards, has nothing to do with taxes. "We don't expect there to be meaningful tax savings or any meaningful changes in our tax rate," said CEO Daniel Schwartz, who would head the combined company.
"We're not moving, we're just growing and finding ways to serve you better. Our headquarters will remain in Miami where we were founded more than 60 years ago," the company explained on its Facebook page.
So at this point, the Sage of Omaha appears to have little to worry about. Still, for the man who once signed a "Dear Uncle Sam" letter in the New York Times as "your grateful nephew," Buffett's patriotism seems to have undergone, well, an inversion of its own.
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In a statement released today Kris Jenner flatly denied allegations that she brokered a deal with Vivid Entertainment in 2007 to release her daughter Kim's sex tape with rapper and former Good Times star, Ray J.
Kris did, however, admit to having been heavily involved in the production. "I wore several hats," the Kardashian matriarch told media. "I was the director, executive producer, did most of the camera work, and let them use my bedroom."
Kris also revealed that Bruce Jenner, her wax-faced husband, was in charge of craft service and occasionally stepped in to lend his hand as the fluffer.
"But I drew the line at selling the video," says Kris, who claims that's where her and her husband's involvement ended.
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EL PASO, TX --A former beauty queen in West Texas has been put on probation for shoplifting a $69 shirt from a retail store.
Lorena Tavera of El Paso on Monday pleaded guilty to theft. A judge then sentenced the 2008 Miss El Paso USA winner to nine months of probation.
Tavera also must abide by a 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew, do 80 hours of community service and undergo regular alcohol and drug testing.
El Paso police last August arrested Tavera after store workers noticed the theft and followed her outside the business. Tavera was accused of slipping the shirt into a shopping bag and walking away.


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Qubeey Receives CES Best In Show Award At International CES 2013
May 27, 2018, 08:34 EST
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Emerging technology company Qubeey, Inc., continues to receive recognition throughout the industry. Last week, at International CES 2013 in Las Vegas, Black Enterprise magazine presented Qubeey with the CES Best in Show award for Most Promising New Media/Digital Media Technology.
Based in Southern California, Qubeey, is the innovator of a browser-free technology platform transforming Internet communications and access through interactive and assertive outreach, social networking, video chats from user profiles, user channels and content streams, all available through Qubeey's Qube interface at www.qubeey.com.
Also at CES, Qubeey was featured on the cover of Consumer Electronics Daily News (CEDN) for the debut of Qubeey 2.0, which features integrated streams based on user interests, which can be bridged to user networks for follower access, and action cards that provide real time, interactive notifications of all activity within a user's social and business networks. Visit www.qubeeypress.com.
"We are a young company that continues to receive an incredibly warm reception throughout the industry for our innovative technology platform. This is our very first company award and to receive it from Black Enterprise is an absolute honor. We will treasure it always," said Rocky Wright, Qubeey CEO and brainchild behind the technology.
"At Black Enterprise, we believe in innovation and creativity in technology so we provide support and exposure for organizations we feel deliver excellence in innovation and communications across multiple digital platforms. Qubeey offers dynamic functionality with opportunities for infinite applications," said Marcia Wade Talbert, technology editor and multimedia content producer at Black Enterprise.
"At Qubeey, our vision is to leverage the power of the Internet to facilitate connectivity and communications to everyone everywhere, on the device of their choice," said Marc Brogdon, VP Marketing at Qubeey.
Qubeey is available on PCs, Macs, iPads, Tablets, mobile phones and soon on gaming devices and smart TVs.
Hollywood legend Bill Duke made a special appearance in the Qubeey booth and showcased one of the many ways Qubeey technology is being utilized. The multiple award-winning director, producer and actor presented the world premiere of the trailer for his new project, "Menace," the first interactive web series developed using Qubeey's revolutionary browser-free platform.
With "Menace," Duke becomes the first industry heavy-hitter to use Qubeey technology to create entertainment product for distribution to desktops and other device tops. Produced in collaboration with Qubeey Studios, "Menace" allows viewers to choose what happens next at every plot point. Duke discussed how Qubeey's advanced technology is reinventing how films are made and distributed and why the technology platform is becoming an entertainment game-changer. Visit www.qubeey.com/dukemedia.
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The 2017 relasee of Adobe FrameMaker offers a number of exciting new features, which can now provide authors with the components of an across the board solution for authoring and publishing technical content to mobile, web, desktop, and print platforms.
—Julian Murfitt, CEO, Mekon Ltd.
Positively, the new features and enhancements will speed up the workflow and authoring experience. Adobe has improvised the FrameMaker 2017 a lot in terms of user-experience and with simplified user-interface, user has more control.
—Amit Siddhartha, CEO, Metapercept Technology Services
If you are looking for a good tool with an efficient and user-friendly interface to create content and to publish to web or print, there's no need to look further. FrameMaker 2017 has it all.
—Wiebe van den Berg, Software Engineer, Sabern B.V.
"The new Project Manager in Adobe FrameMaker (2017 release) is a great feature! Technical documents often hold enormous amounts of pictures, drawings, Excel sheets and so forth, and being able to keep track of the entire catalog of resources is very helpful."
—Bjørn Smalbro, Director, FrameMaker.dk
"The 2017 release of Adobe FrameMaker offers far and away the most significant updates to the user interface. My students are going to love the new features and the improvements to the user experience."
—Matt Sullivan, FrameMaker Certified Instructor, techcommtools.com
"In addition to the user interface enhancements in the 2017 release of Adobe FrameMaker, the new project manager feature is quite powerful and makes me much more productive. The most compelling updates though are to the workflows. Instead of 3 or 4 or 5 clicks, I can now get the job done in just 1 or 2 clicks!"
—Thomas M. Aldous, Founder, The Content Era
"Adobe FrameMaker has a new release (called Adobe FrameMaker 2017) that has a ton of improvements toward simplicity and usability. Some of the new features include new responsive HTML5 layouts, auto-complete search, more intuitive menus for authors, and more. Tools like FrameMaker that allow you to focus on content (instead of worrying about creating your own search, site design, pdf output, navigation menu, and more) provide a huge win for both technical writers and companies. The company's documentation tends to be what matters most to both users and product owners."
—Tom Johnson, Technical Writer, Amazon Lab126
"FrameMaker is making it easier and easier to publishing to HTML from DITA and they're now including automatic content filtering based on your DITA attribute values."
—Jacquie Samuels, Owner, Writing Wise
"The new menus interface in Adobe FrameMaker (2017 release) enhances the user experience by organizing menus and commands in a more logical and intuitive way and making the interface more compact and easier to navigate. The addition of the Command Search functionality greatly improves productivity by making it a lot easier for users to find commands and associated keyboard shortcuts."
—Tassos Anastasiou, Owner, TAC
"Adobe FrameMaker (2017 release) totally changes the way DITA is delivered as HTML5. Using the Dynamic Content Filter I can deliver content for multiple products and let my customers decide what to see. One package of output that can be filtered by categories such as 'product' or 'platform' means my clients can deliver all the information they need, on any device, and allow their users to pick and choose what to read. One demo of this feature and people will be sold on FrameMaker for DITA publishing. It really is that impressive!"
—Bernard Aschwanden, Founder and President, Publishing Smarter
"The 2017 release of Adobe FrameMaker is the only solution in market which covers all major needs out-of-the box in editing and publishing for any device in any language based on XML technology or on classic DTP technology."
—Dieter Gust, Member of the Supervisory Board, Director of Research & Development, itl
"The best addition in the 2017 release of Adobe FrameMaker is the reorganized menus. Users will find their productivity greatly enhanced. For example, with the 'insert' menu, adding images and other objects is now easy, intuitive, and understandable."
—Wim Hooghwinkel, Owner/CEO of iDTP
"The better customization of output to HTML5 in the 2017 release of Adobe FrameMaker is great. It makes adapting a product to the design specifications of a customer's website so much easier. Really nice!"
—Bjørn Smalbro, Director, FrameMaker.dk
"While most people don't think of a re-organized menu as being a big deal, it makes a world of difference to new users to have a logical way to find information. Adobe FrameMaker (2017 release) takes the years of development Adobe has done and finally consolidates the menus, reworks the categories, and adds the ability to press F7 almost anywhere and simply type in a command. The contextual options become one of the only ways I open up and work with FrameMaker. Productivity increases and it just feels right to work in this fashion."
—Bernard Aschwanden, Founder and President, Publishing Smarter
"The 2017 release of Adobe FrameMaker continues to be the premier application for quality, content rich, publishing. The new enhancements only make it that much better for any type of information presentation whether it be to paper or a
mobile device and everything in between. Nothing comes close to FrameMaker's solid performance for meticulous generation and dissemination of information."
mobile device and everything in between. Nothing comes close to FrameMaker's solid performance for meticulous generation and dissemination of information."
—Ben Slone, President & CEO, Finite Matters Ltd.
"My new laptop is an ultra-high-definition device and I routinely work with external monitors. The support that has been added for this type of a display in Adobe FrameMaker 2017 means that I can see what I am working with, regardless of the device I use. Moving from one monitor to the other used to mean resetting my display in the 2017 release of Adobe FrameMaker. Now, I just open my files and do my work. Dialogs, menus, even onscreen content seems to fit just the way I expect it to, and I don't have to mess with monitor settings anymore."
—Bernard Aschwanden, Founder and President, Publishing Smarter
"The new Project Manager functionality is the greatest improvement in the 2017 release of Adobe FrameMaker. It allows users to organize and view all their resources (files, images, etc.) used in their documents and provides a quick, logical and intuitive way for easily finding and using them in their FrameMaker documents. The drag and drop ability allows a user to quickly reorganize and manage their resources as new files become available or when the project requirements change."
—Tassos Anastasiou, Owner, TAC
"Connectivity with the Adobe Experience Manager CCMS means that DITA content can be shared with both marketing communications and technical communications teams. The 2017 release of Adobe FrameMaker, and the connection between tools and technologies, enables people and business to do more in less time with greater quality. It's a win-win-win situation for employees, businesses, and customers to get the right information, at the right time, and in the right format. Everyone works together for a consistent user experience."
—Bernard Aschwanden, Founder and President, Publishing Smarter
"The new DITA templates in Adobe FrameMaker (2017 release) have done the trick when it comes to synchronizing the DITA 1.2 and the DITA 1.3 experience. I can open files, update the look and feel quickly, and, as an author, get a guided workspace making it far simpler to create content than in the past. Adobe has definitely stepped things up with FrameMaker 2017."
—Bernard Aschwanden, Founder and President, Publishing Smarter
"The 2017 release of Adobe FrameMaker includes major enhancements on the HTML5 publishing side. With Basic HTML5 output, not only can I publish HTML5 output that is customizable, but I can easily share my content to any device."
—Thomas M. Aldous, Founder, The Content Era
"The new responsive HTML5 output enhancements in the 2017 release of Adobe FrameMaker, especially search autocomplete, are state of the art. FrameMaker is a future-ready solution, best prepared for the smooth paradigm change from book to topic oriented publishing."
—Dieter Gust, Member of the Supervisory Board, Director of Research & Development, itl